Advertising device.



W. T. FAUGETT.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.24.1913.

1 ,O94,709, Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

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WILLIAM T. FAUGETT, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

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To all In/10m it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. FAUcn'r'r,av citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the countyof Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and usefulAdvertising Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that form of advertising device known as abusiness directory and has for its object to provide a device made up inthe form of a rectangular frame designed to be placed on a wall in aconspicuous place and provided at its central portion with mirrors andarranged with removable and interchangeable auxiliary frames positionedbetween the mirrors and the outside frame, the auxiliary frames beingdesigned to receive advertising cards or the like.

A further object is to provide means in connection with the auxiliaryframes for dividing the spaces therein to thereby accemmodate cards of vrying lengths; and also to provide means whereby the auxiliary framesare held in position, said means being so arranged as to be practicallyinvisible from the front of the device.

My invention consists in certain details, in the construction,arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, wherebythe objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully setforth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a front elevation of my advertising device, one of theauxiliary frames therein being removed and shown in perspective. Fig. 2shows a central, longitudinal edge view of a portion of my device, andFig. 3 shows a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Jig. 1.

Referring in detail to the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that Ihave used the reference numeral 10 to indicate the outside or wall framewhich may be arranged in rectangular form and preferably provided withhooks 11 for hanging wraps thereon. The frame is provided with a solidback 12 and centrally arranged within the frame are mirrors 13 carriedin frames 14; and spaced apart equidistant from the adjacent sides andends of the exterior frame and from each other. The central frames 14which carry the mirrors are secured perma nently to the back 12 by meansof screws 15 or the like. Interposed between the outside Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed March 24, 1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 121 1. Serial No. 756,606.

frame and the central frame are a plurality of auxiliary frames 16 allindentical in size so as to be readily interchangeable. Each of theseframes 16 is provided with a glass front 17 against which an advertisingcard 18 is designed to be placed.

The advertising card may extend the entire length of the frame or, ifdesired, se eral cards may be placed in each frame and for this purposeI have provided a number of T-shaped strips 19 designed to be placedagainst the glass 17 between the adjacent ends of the cards in eachframe. These strips will serve to divide the spaces within the frame andto hold the cards therein in proper positions. For keeping the cardstightly against the glass front, cardboard or picture backing 20 isemployed. Each of the cardboards will of course be of a size and shapeto correspond with the advertising card it is designed to hold in place.Flat metal springs 21 are pivoted to the sides and ends of each of theframes and arranged to exert an inward pressure to thereby hold thecardboards in proper position. Obviously the springs are only usefulwhen the frames are being removed or replaced as in practice the springsare small and con structed of very thin metal and therefore the backportion 12 of the exterior frame will in reality bear against tl ecardboards when the parts are assembled. For removably securing theauxiliary frames in place, I employ on the exterior frame adjacent toeach of the auxiliary frames, two outwardly curved lugs 22. On the sideof each auxiliary frame, adjacent to these lugs corresponding openings23 are provided and when fitting the auxiliary frames in posi tion thelugs 22 will enter the openings 23 and serve to hold that side of theframe in position. In the case of the vertical auxiliary frame at themiddle of my device, as shown in Fig. 1, the lugs 22 are not secured tothe exterior frame but to the central frame of either one of themirrors. On the side of each frame, opposite that side provided with theopenings, a spring metal catch 24: is centrally arranged. This catch hasan outwardly bulging curve which, when the auxiliary frame is inposition, engages the adjacent portion of the central frames. Near theoutward end of the catch, an opening 25 is provided and a lug 26,secured to the central frame, is positioned in line with said openingand arranged to enter the Cit opening; when the catch is in normalposition. The portion of the auxiliary frame nearest; the outer end ofthe catch is cut away, as shown at 27, so that the end of the catch mayhe moved sufficient distance to disengage the lug 26 when it is desiredto remove he auxiliary frame.

In the operation of my device, a frame of desired size and carrying oneor more cei 'rally arranged mirrors is placed in a vertical orhorizontal posi ion on a, wall in cuous place. 'ifhe requisite numi iiliary frames is then provided, and "he-seshould all be of the same sizein that they may be interchanged. Tie t czmtaining the adyertising;matter beng; at hand the next operation is to arrange the cards withinthe auxiliary frames and where uuniber o'l' eards are provided for eachl1 line, the T-slnped strips are fitted against the glass front inposition between the adjacent ends of the :ards. The backare then fittedover the cards and the V nee moved to position for holding the in place.The auxiliary frame is "ted against the outside frame with entering theopenings Then winning the free end of the auxiliary inwardly the catch2% will engage the t and thereby be moved inwardly until enters the.ip-ening 25. The catch spring outwardly and thus the he held securelyin its closed posih i the construction of my device the frame i of asize to accommodate one or oi the central frames, and ol i'iouslymeralion in ea :h -ase will. be the same.

1 e interclianpealiile feature of the auxilaud the means for ren'iorablyseframes in position are among the important iuli'antages offered by myI claim as my invention: 1. in a device of the class described, an outertrame inner frames spaced apart therefrom, a plurality of auxiliary amesdesigned to be placed between the outer and inner frames, the outerframe and auxiliary frames being provided with lugs and with openingsfor receiving said lugs, the inner and auxiliary frames being providedwith :oacting lugs and spring catch devices so arranged. that when theauxiliary frames are placed in position the first named lugs enter saidopenii'lgs and the second named lugs are automatically engaged by saidspring catch devices.

.2. in a device of the class d scribed an outer frame designed to beplaced adjacent to a wall, a solid bacl: sicured thereto a second framear 'aneed within said outer f atom and spaced apart the r: irom at all.points a plur .lity of smaller frames designed to he placed between saidfirst and second frames for engaging the edges of :ards or the lilceplaced l'JPtVfCdH said smaller and said the class described, the frame,a plurality o lier aim o'; aux liary frames so ie of which areinterposed betw on said outer and said inner frames" others beinginterposed between said. inner frames. said outer frame being providedwith l l adjin'ent to all the auxiliary frames excepi l 3 betwe n thesuccessive inner frames, saic inner frames being prorided, with allraiity of lugs said auxiliary frame; bei 5 formed with a plurality ofone side to receive certain of with catch deriecs on. their otherngag'ing others of said lugs on the inner fran'ics.

D i ifoines, Eowa, Bil-arch 1S, 1913.

WILLIAM FAUCET. ll'itnesses openings on 1 Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of ratents,Washington, TB. (1.

